The Workplace Democracy Act would strengthen the middle class by restoring workers’ rights to bargain for better wages,benefits and working conditions.
Declining unionization has fueled rising inequality and corporate profits at an all-time high, while wages as a percentage of the economy are near an all-time low. The middle class is disappearing, and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider.
See IAM International President Bob Martinez’s remarks at 43:38